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How to Create an Infobox: Difference between revisions
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→Step One - Create the table
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*Now pay close attention to the table tags. You should notice that we have placed | *Now pay close attention to the table tags. You should notice that we have placed an one pixel border around the table and floated it to the right</nowiki></font color> in the table tag . | ||
*Since the name of the organization and the image will extend over the two columns which contain the information about the organization we will install <font color="red">colspan="2"</font color> and | *Since the name of the organization and the image will extend over the two columns which contain the information about the organization, we will install <font color="red">colspan="2"</font color> and center the name of the organization as well as the image. | ||
*When you save your infobox be sure include the word "infobox" in the title so people will know what kind of template | *When you save your infobox be sure include the word "infobox" in the title so people will know what kind of template at a glance. For example: <font color="red"><nowiki>{{template:infobox sample}}</nowiki></font color>. | ||
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*As it stands, the HTML coding is ok at this point, but the Wikitext has a problem. Normally the Wikitext as is will work for any table, however, we are going to be installing <em>parameters</em> which require us to replace the |'s in the Wikitext with <font color="red"><nowiki>{{{!}}}</nowiki></font color>. The reason is a bit beyond the scope of this article but if you are interested [[Template:!|click here]] | *As it stands, the HTML coding is ok at this point, but the Wikitext has a problem. Normally the Wikitext as is will work for any table, however, we are going to be installing <em>parameters</em> which require us to replace the |'s in the Wikitext with <font color="red"><nowiki>{{{!}}}</nowiki></font color>. The reason is a bit beyond the scope of this article but if you are interested [[Template:!|click here]] | ||